The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-08
Ticket. Pri1'. Fraction.

Two negro laboring men Of New Orleans
won $4,000 each-one.tenth OF ch of the CAPT
tai prlEe-and there was joy on their taces
phin, the President Of the Company. then
exhibited the list of ticket holders, showing
to what sections of the country the tickets
we're sent, and to whom, thus affordinR an
absolute protection against fraud or duplica-
ton of tickets,
Everybody in New Orleans buys lottery
tickets. They do that as regularly as they
pay their board bills. Not ticket was to be
had in the ctr yesterday morning at 10
O'Clock. The institution has n strong hold
npon the people.-no thing peculiar among
the latin race. They believe 10 the respOn-
sibllity and honesty of the Company, and
are ready to take their chan ces on winning
back their money: And then the possibility
of one Of the Capital Prizes! During eleven
months Of 1885 the Company has paid in
prizes more than SO 900 900. The capital of
the Company is 81 100000, and it has a sur
plus OF $500, 200. Every body tri es to get some
Of the stock, and il is held largely by women.
The payment under its chsTrer of $40 900 a
year maintains one Of the finest and best
equipped hospitals in the world, in which
the unfortunate o. the whole Mississippi
Valley are cared for. But the liberal hand
the Company reaches almo 50 every deserV-
ing Chart in the community, md hence its
popularity 10 large degree. There is moth
ing Osten atious in Is good deeds, but they
are Tor that reason appreciated the more.
CASTING LOTS.
While from time immemOrial the Latin
race has INDUCED in lotteries, the
disposition to grow rich IN the turn of a
card not by any means confined to that
race. Sooner or later nearly ev,rsone buys a
lnttery cket, and JOY comes with winning.
In this, as il many things in life, men are
proud only when success crowns their ven
lures. The origin OF lotteries is by no means
mysterious or IOwly. Lot" implies some
thing hidden, and that which can be known
or awarded only by fortune or tie act Of God,
Lot aud Abraham were seeking their for
upon mountain from whence they could
see all the East and II Q v est, and Lot chose
the beautiful valley which stretchsd away
toward Jordan and Sodom and G0mOrrah.
he was taking bis chances. He bad to draw
q prizs, or b ank in the lot cry of life. The
des blazing fire wrapped his e,tates and cities
In flames, and even his wife was turned into
phi lar of salt. hat was q hard "lot" 1t
was by casting lots that the eleven dis
cihes elected the successor ofJudas, and the
famous missionaries among the Indians, the
Moraylaps, in the early days married by
'l0t'-and so marriage still remains a lot
terry, Augustus introduced lotteries to the
people Of Italy. About tho time. OF Luther
wares and goods and shiOs by lot. In
1880 the republic of Genoa ressrted to
lotteries to maintain the Government, and
there the first lot cry with regularly
numbered tickets was drawn. Francis 1
adopted the Genosse plan, and eac pur-
cheser Of ticket paid small sum as trib-
ute to the Government. Twenty-one years
later lotteries for money exclusively were
founded, and they were conducted under the
direct control OF the king. In England he first
publ lottery was drawn in 1869, theprofts be-
Ing devoted to repairing English harbors. In
1872 lottery was granted by the crown to
the Virginia colony, and in 1880 one to sup
ply Lehdon with water. In 1903 Parliament
passed lottery bills az d Kept up the practics
regularly. In October, 1925, the last public
lottery was drawn no der Parliamentary law
in Great Britain. In Hamburger and in Cuba
them with the ssfeguards that have bssn ca st
about. The Louisiana Lotter,. The CONT
nehtal Congress established lotteries, aud
the so-called art unions were lotteries in an
other guise.
EXAMPLE OF WASHINGTON.
DR.. Dauphin, the President of the Louisi-
ana State Lottery Com pany, is not only an
excellent and Systematic business man, but
nntidu aYian. aene ciallv in this gnacial